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How does one become POTUS without knowing how many states he's POTUS of?
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...the difference between a plural and a possessive.
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You guy’s know what I mean?
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Plural's have possession's?
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Before I retired from full time butchering, I worked with some kids that printed their name as a signature because they didn't know cursive....and by kids, I mean early 20's. Pathetic.
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I will start. How does one graduate HS without knowing.... That Alaska is not an island? Had an admin assistant once. She overheard me talking about wanting to drive up to Alaska one day. She said "you can't drive to Alaska!". When I asked what she meant, she said "it's an island!!!" No, unfortunately I am not chitting you. She firmly believed after all those years of staring at one of these in school.... ...that Alaska was an island. I wish I was kidding. I'm not.
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I absolutely love these threads.
How does one graduate from HS without knowing that it is improper to start a sentence with "I seen". This is rampant on forums.
How does one graduate from HS without knowing that he has been saying should've/would've/could've and not "should of", "would of" and "could of". The only way to get to that point one must have either: a) accidentally skipped class every single day that contractions were studied and graded; or, b) simply decided I want to type something completely different than we were taught.
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Or graduate high school rather than graduate from high school.
Dropping the "from" has certainly become common, and is seen even in some fairly formal writing, but it is still not considered correct.
I admit to being old school, but when I hear graduate high school I immediately think "Billy Bob is the first in our family to graduate high school".
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JMO I do think it's a shame that we no longer place any emphasis on grammar and using words in the proper context and basic spelling. These days, you get called a "grammar nazi " and severely flamed, while elsewhere in the world young kids learn several languages and grow up and immigrate here and take up the top executive positions in our companies, and we can't figure out why. That, and some small kid named RanjeetpaldumHanpanhagaamagaa III wins all the nation's top spelling bees, and gets full scholarship offers from a dozen top universities This is a very good point. It shows how we, as a society, have made a decision to "give up". I think the same can be said of most other examples provided in this thread. There is simply no more shame in the U.S. and that, pardon the pun, is a shame.
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Or graduate high school rather than graduate from high school.
Dropping the "from" has certainly become common, and is seen even in some fairly formal writing, but it is still not considered correct.
I admit to being old school, but when I hear graduate high school I immediately think "BIlly Bob is the first in our family to graduate high school". Paul, thank you, thank you, thank you!
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I absolutely love these threads. How does one graduate from HS without knowing that it is improper to start a sentence with "I seen". This is rampant on forums. How does one graduate from HS without knowing that he has been saying should've/would've/could've and not "should of", "would of" and "could of". The only way to get to that point one must have either: a) accidentally skipped class every single day that contractions were studied and graded; or, b) simply decided I want to type something completely different than we were taught. Er - - - actually, the contraction should've would be from "should have", etc. not "should of". Maybe this is what you meant.
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I absolutely love these threads. How does one graduate from HS without knowing that it is improper to start a sentence with "I seen". This is rampant on forums. How does one graduate from HS without knowing that he has been saying should've/would've/could've and not "should of", "would of" and "could of". The only way to get to that point one must have either: a) accidentally skipped class every single day that contractions were studied and graded; or, b) simply decided I want to type something completely different than we were taught. Er - - - actually, the contraction should've would be from "should have", etc. not "should of". Maybe this is what you meant. I am willing to stand corrected; but, please show me where I am in error. My point is, we have lots of people who type "should of" in places where "should've" is the correct thing to type. Hence, apparently, people think that the words "should" and "of" together are a substitute for "should've" and, consequently, "should have". It is understandable that a foreigner, with no training/teaching in English, who's only reference for our language is what they heard, would think people were actually saying "should of"; but, someone who has presumably graduated from high school in the U.S. does not have that excuse. So, what I meant, and what I thought I conveyed was people who have presumably graduated from high school repeatedly type "should of" where "should've" is the correct thing to have typed.
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It seems to me the "ve" at the end implied the contraction of the word have.
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I absolutely love these threads. How does one graduate from HS without knowing that it is improper to start a sentence with "I seen". This is rampant on forums. How does one graduate from HS without knowing that he has been saying should've/would've/could've and not "should of", "would of" and "could of". The only way to get to that point one must have either: a) accidentally skipped class every single day that contractions were studied and graded; or, b) simply decided I want to type something completely different than we were taught. Er - - - actually, the contraction should've would be from "should have", etc. not "should of". Maybe this is what you meant. I am willing to stand corrected; but, please show me where I am in error. My point is, we have lots of people who type "should of" in places where "should've" is the correct thing to type. Hence, apparently, people think that the words "should" and "of" together are a substitute for "should've" and, consequently, "should have". It is understandable that a foreigner, with no training/teaching in English, who's only reference for our language is what they heard, would think people were actually saying "should of"; but, someone who has presumably graduated from high school in the U.S. does not have that excuse. So, what I meant, and what I thought I conveyed was people who have presumably graduated from high school repeatedly type "should of" where "should've" is the correct thing to have typed. I think that your premise is quite good - on the mark.
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Not knowing the difference and proper use of "their" and "there". Also the difference of "to" & "too". I also see people using "were" instead of "we're" alot.
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Sometimes people just need a little "trick" to remember.
Their is an "ownership" word. Take off the "T' and it still is.
There is a "place" word. Take off the "T" and it still is, and also is the opposite of the full word.
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Have a couple college professor friends, and today's students feel text lingo is perfectly acceptable in their formal compositions.
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Or graduate high school rather than graduate from high school.
Dropping the "from" has certainly become common, and is seen even in some fairly formal writing, but it is still not considered correct.
I admit to being old school, but when I hear graduate high school I immediately think "BIlly Bob is the first in our family to graduate high school". Paul, thank you, thank you, thank you! A public bulletin board/outdoors forum is hardly "formal writing". So where do we find the rules of what is acceptable usage for informal writing? I fail to see how "graduated High School" would raise an eyebrow in a place where fugg, schitt, and niqqer are commonly used.
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Have a couple college professor friends, and today's students feel text lingo is perfectly acceptable in their formal compositions. Eternally glad I didn't go the college teacher route. When at University, way back in the olden days, I'd go to the library and get trash paper from the copy center. One side was blank, I could use it for scratch paper for calculus and chemistry figuring. Once, I got some paper that was apparently for a remedial English class, for those folks that needed a class to catch up to college level English I guess. Upon reading the paper, I was stunned. The nuns wouldn't have passed me out of 7th grade with writing like that, yet apparently someone had managed to get into a University and needed to catch up. On one of my jobs I had the pleasure of doing the school tours, when the big yellow bus showed up with a load of kids to visit the facility. Younger kids were just there for "fun". The older kids, junior high through high school were sometimes there to see a possible future for themselves in the field. When the teacher would ask "Geno, what type of classes should someone interested in your field take to prepare for a job here?", I'd give them the bad news. "Well, math for calculating, biology for knowing the critters you're working with, and English for writing reports to supervisors or publishing papers about your work". You could just see the frowns and slumped shoulders start on the kids that had seemed interested in such a cool, decent paying job. Oh well, like many things in today's world, I figure I'm on the way out sooner than later, and therefor these problems will be left for others to solve.
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Good you are grateful Geno for, conversely, I am eternally grateful that I did go the college teacher route.
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